Tag: Iran

William de Berg, Kabuki Theater II?

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William de Berg The predominant narrative about the current Iran conflict is that Donald Trump made one of the greatest military historical blunders of all times by attempting to destroy a government and military of a nation of almost 93 million that hosts one of the world’s greatest reserves of natural resources and perhaps the third-largest fleet of advanced missiles and low-cost drones—all with a few thousand (belated) U.S. Marines and airborne soldiers and (initially) a single aircraft carrier over 1000 kilometers off-shore.  His supposed blunder resulted partly from the…

Patrick J. McShay, It’s Time MAGA Distanced Itself from Israel

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Patrick J. McShay “When the President of the United States threatens to annihilate 92 million people because he doesn’t like a government’s policy on a shipping lane, that’s not a negotiating tactic or strategic ambiguity, that’s a threat of genocide.” — Scott Ritter- Former Marine Officer and UN Weapons Inspector “Everyone is afraid of being physically hurt by Israel“ — Tucker Carlson “Trump is the best thing to have ever happened to us. He is a magician of the highest order whose job is to create confusion and usher in…

Trump’s framing of war as Iran’s barbarism vs civilised West is a huge lie

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Peter Oborne and Irfan Chowdhury  Two conceptual fallacies lie at the heart of the illegal American–Israeli assault on Iran. The first is the idea that Iran is a barbaric country, stuck in the Middle Ages, and incapable of fitting in with the modern world. As Trump put it when asked why striking Iranian bridges and power plants would not be a war crime. He replied: “They’re animals.” The second mistake concerns the belief that the United States represents western civilisation. In this article we subject these basic assumptions to scrutiny by examining the intellectual accomplishments and capacity of leading figures on…

Aearnur’s Newsletter, TRUMP HAS TWO RAZOR-SHARP KNIVES AT HIS THROAT

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AEARNUR’S NEWSLETTER There is no way Trump can escape his fate. One way or another, he is a dead man walking… Trump is joined at the hip to Netanyahu and the Israel lobby. He is fixed there by the strongest superglue ever developed. It can’t just be his sex crimes via Epstein, it is a much stronger adhesive than that. Trump’s commitment to Israel without doubt goes back many years before even his first presidency. Now Trump is no genius, no matter how many times he says he is. He…

Press TV Exclusive: US suffered major strategic defeat in failed Isfahan operation

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PRESS TV Information obtained by Press TV regarding the recent operation by the US-Israeli coalition in the central Isfahan province reveals a major strategic defeat for the enemy. US President Donald Trump’s frantic threats in the past few days to target Iran’s civilian infrastructure, including power plants and bridges, are a direct consequence of the heavy defeat suffered by the US forces in the Isfahan operation. The failed raid was carried out after the enemy conducted extensive aerial reconnaissance operations in the days leading up to the attack, according to the exclusive information. During those initial…

Jack Mullen, The Sun Sets On Last European Super Power

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Jack Mullen   A power which has dotted over the surface of the whole globe with her possessions and military posts, whose morning drumbeat, following the sun and keeping company with the hours, circles the earth with one continuous and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England.– Daniel Webster Bee warned, yow stage-strutters all, Least yow again be catched, And such a burneing doe befall, As to them whose howse was thatched; Forbeare your whoreing, breeding biles, And laye up that expence for tiles. Oh sorrow, pittifull sorrow, and…

Gordon Duff, A Declaration to the Conscience of Humanity

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Gordon Duff  [Editor’s note: This blog begins with a statement that many (including me) have signed. Gordon Diff’s Personal Addendum follows.] To the peoples of the world, to thinkers, to scholars, and to those who believe in justice: A specter now haunts the conscience of humanity—the return of predatory power— and it shall no longer go unchallenged. For 249 years—spanning the entirety of its existence since 1776—the United States built a record of atrocity that belonged to a darker, pre-civilised age; predatory empire erected on the corpses of nations; from…

Hal Turner: The United States Just LOST the Entire Middle East; The U.S. Dollar is DONE – But Nobody is Talking About It

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Hal Turner [Editor’s note: Everyone should have seen this coming. The Chinese professor explained it all from the beginning. This demonstrates the profound stupidity of US foreign relations under Israel.] The US/Iran War: Watch and Understand Why It was Lost from the Beginning While everyone is watching the bombs fall on Iran, something FAR more dangerous just happened behind closed doors. Reuters confirms Gulf states are now “reassessing their security dependence on Washington” and actively considering new regional security arrangements — with IRAN. Let that sink in. The countries America SWORE…

Joachim Hagopian, Week #3 Iran War Update – It’s the End of the World as We Know It

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Joachim Hagopian With the Strait of Hormuz closed to all US/Western ships, but opened earlier this month to approved non-Western tankers from India, China and Pakistan, the costs of oil continue to skyrocket globally, up to $150 per barrel in Asia. In retaliation, late last Friday the 13th, after the stock market closed, Trump bombed what appears to be mostly dirt mounds on Iran’s Kharg Island in the Persian Gulf, said to be the nation’s primary loading site source that supplies 90% of Iran’s outgoing exported oil by sea. After Trump’s initial bombing attack,…

Joachim Hagopian, Battle for Human Survival Extends Far Beyond Iran Winning the War

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Joachim Hagopian Humanity has never seen anything quite like it before… a deranged, demented, narcissistic, unprosecuted, serial child rapist US president, plunging our country into yet another Greater Israel Project war against a nation that has never posed a threat to US national security. But as US hegemon-turned Paper Tiger pariah in real time goes down in flames, reports are emerging that the world’s largest, most advanced aircraft carrier costing $13 billion, has also reportedly been damaged by non-combat fire, injuring two sailors. Also one unconfirmed report even states an Iranian…